All lamed synonyms
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L l verb lamed
- disable β make not work
- immobilize β to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- clobber β You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- pummel β to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- shatter β to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- bruise β A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
- cripple β A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- wallop β to beat soundly; thrash.
- buffet β A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
- smash β to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
- pelt β to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
- lash β an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- punish β to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- bash β A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people.
- paralyze β to affect with paralysis.
- immobilize β to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- sap β Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- debilitate β If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- incapacitate β to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
- hamstring β (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- stifle β to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- undermine β to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- weaken β to make weak or weaker.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- handicap β a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- hobble β to walk lamely; limp.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- wound β the act of winding.
- hack β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- castrate β To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- amputate β To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- butcher β A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- ravage β to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- knock out β to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- freeze β to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- stun β to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- dash β If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.